Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few days after the assassination of Martin Luther King last April, the rioting that swept American cities was almost as widespread and destructive as in all of 1967. Last year, 233 racial upheavals in 168 cities and towns caused 82 deaths, 3,400 injuries and 18,800 arrests. By comparison, in April alone this year, 202 racial disturbances hit 172 cities, resulting in 43 deaths, 3,500 injuries and 27,000 arrests. Leaders among both blacks and whites feared that the emotional orgy of those few days would prove to be only a prelude to the nation...
Once again, Huie has shown that money in the right hands pays off. Under the cautious eye of Attorney Arthur Hanes, James Earl Ray, the accused killer of Martin Luther King Jr., is telling his life story to Huie. In exchange, Huie is financing Ray's defense. So far, Huie has not been permitted to see Ray, but he has received some 20,000 handwritten words, which he is exhaustively checking out. Ray may or may not be involved, but Huie has become convinced that a conspiracy led to the murder. Huie plans to publish one article before...
...veteran's modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...
...police were not unhappy. Daley had prepared them last April, in the wake of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, when he ordered the cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists and to "shoot to maim or cripple" looters. Chicago police theoretically receive regular in-service riot training, but in fact the training consists largely of reading general departmental orders rather than intensive drilling...
...youngster who plays with make-believe guns is no more likely to grow up a criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...